The Matchcover Storyteller
Smilin’ Eddie Hill only had a show on WMPS Memphis, from about 1950 to 1952, (so that dates this matchcover) but there are some fairly rich and deep biographies of him celebrating his place in country music. From Knoxville, to Memphis, to Nashville, essentially embracing the width of The Volunteer State, it is his pioneering. DJ work at WSM Nashville, for which he seems to be most remembered. 
I’m not even sure he had any performed music charted but among other things, he was in Nashville by 1953 and the MC when the Grand Ol’ Opry had its first television airing on WSM-TV in ‘53!
And when you look at the back/inside of this Diamond “Perfect 36” among other people, you see Ira and Charlie, the Louvin brothers, mainstays in country and bluegrass!
The Matchcover Storyteller 
What is the rarest matchbook cover you have?
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That is quite hard to say. I have some very old Chicago Bears match covers from the late 1920s. I have a 1970s or 1980s max cover from a restaurant called the Kon Tiki autographs by Thor Heyerdahl the man who first sailed The Kon Tiki raft to Polynesia in 1948. I have a match cover from the Canadian House of Commons autograph by then Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. I have quite a number of other older matchcovers, but I just have no idea what the value of them would be.
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